AI Research salary in Cambridge
Employer-stated pay · updated Oct 21, 2026
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AI Research pay in Cambridge is measured from 14 postings where the employer stated pay. The best-evidenced figure is senior, where 8 postings put the middle half between $163,575 and $196,250, with a median of $171,000.
Against the 8 other measured markets for AI research at senior, this sits below 8 of them; San Francisco leads at $250,750.
Every range here rests on fewer than 10 postings, so read them as a strong hint rather than a benchmark; the sample column shows exactly what backs each number.
25 AI research roles are open in Cambridge right now, 16 listing pay.
| Level | Market range | Median | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | $156,000 – $190,500 | $180,000 | 6hint |
| Senior | $163,575 – $196,250 | $171,000 | 8hint |
Entry is junior titles. Mid is mid-level and manager titles. Senior is senior titles. Lead is director, VP and above. Rows marked hint rest on fewer than 10 postings: read them as a hint, not a benchmark.
Ranges span the 25th to 75th percentile of employer-stated base pay for the level. Median is the 50th percentile. Sample is the number of postings measured.
Open AI research roles in Cambridge · 16 with stated pay
Pay marked e is our estimate. Everything else is the employer's own figure.
this job's payour estimatewhere most pay sits here, $117,000–$249,000scale $70,000–$350,000
Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist Pfizer · Cambridge New $106,000–$176,600 today 
Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist Pfizer (Internaljobs) · Cambridge New $106,000–$176,600 today Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Automated Safety Lila Sciences · Cambridge New $180,000–$298,000 1d ago Senior / Principal Materials Scientist, AI Safety Lila Sciences · Cambridge New $268,000–$384,000 1d ago Principal Scientist, AI-Native Discovery (Large Molecules) Johnson & Johnson · Spring House New $117,000–$201,250 3d ago Staff / Principal Research Engineer, AI Safety Mitigations Lila Sciences · Cambridge $224,000–$336,000 6d ago AI Scientist – AI-Driven Target Identification Novartis · Cambridge $103,600–$192,400 8w ago Senior Scientist – Physical AI for Surgical Robotics (Cambridge, MA) Philips · Cambridge $157,000–$249,000 2mo ago Research Engineer, Scientific Data & Workflow Infrastructure Lila Sciences · Cambridge $148,000–$240,000 2mo ago Principal Scientist / Associate Director, Agentic AI Research for Materials Science Lila Sciences · Cambridge $288,000–$420,000 3mo ago Data Scientist, AI for Biomedical Imaging Novartis · Cambridge $126,000–$234,000 3mo ago Data Scientist, AI for Biomedical Imaging Novartis (Internal Careers for Acquired Entities) · Cambridge $126,000–$234,000 3mo ago Principal Scientist II/Senior Principal Scientist, PK Sciences Clinical Pharmacology Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lead (dual level posting) Novartis · Cambridge $119,700–$222,300 3mo ago Principal Scientist II/Senior Principal Scientist, PK Sciences Clinical Pharmacology Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lead (dual level posting) Novartis (Internal Careers for Acquired Entities) · Cambridge $119,700–$222,300 3mo ago GNC Research Engineer Draper · Cambridge $75,000–$156,000 5mo ago Senior / Engineer II, AI Lab Research Engineer Lila Sciences · Cambridge $148,000–$240,000 1y ago 
Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations: Multimodal Guardrails and VLM's) Capital One · Cambridge In listing 2w ago Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations, LLM Customization and Finetuning) Capital One · San Jose In listing 2w ago Applied Researcher 5 (AI Foundations - LLM, Optimization and Finetuning) Capital One · New York In listing 4w ago Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations, Graph and Behavioral Models) Capital One · San Jose In listing 4w ago Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations - LLM, Optimization and Finetuning) Capital One · New York In listing 4w ago Applied Researcher 5 (AI Foundations, LLM Core and Agentic AI) Capital One · New York In listing 4w ago Data Science & AI Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow Novartis · Cambridge In listing 8w ago Data Science & AI Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow Novartis (Internal Careers for Acquired Entities) · Cambridge In listing 8w ago 
Research Engineer Stefanini · Cambridge $156,000–$190,500e 11y ago